Help Needed - I can't browse networks thru VPN

[Meezo]

I have a very small problem....

I have a VPN connection established between two different LANs. I can't browse the networks' clients at all.

Any body have a solution

[adrien]

Hi

99.99% of the time this is a routing issue.

Do your LAN client machines use the WinGate VPN gateway as their default gateway to the internet? If not, you'll find route issues.

there are several fixes.

1. enable RIP2 listening on your main default gateway. Most gateway devices support this.

2. install the Qbik RIP2 client on the machines that need to be accessible and access other machines on the VPN.

3. Manually configure routes on the default gateway to point to the subnets on the remote network.

4. manually create routes on all LAN machines so they know to use WinGate VPN machine as the gateway to the rest of the VPN.

Regards

Adrien

[Meezo]

Hi

99.99% of the time this is a routing issue.

Do your LAN client machines use the WinGate VPN gateway as their default gateway to the internet? If not, you'll find route issues.

there are several fixes.

1. enable RIP2 listening on your main default gateway. Most gateway devices support this.

2. install the Qbik RIP2 client on the machines that need to be accessible and access other machines on the VPN.

3. Manually configure routes on the default gateway to point to the subnets on the remote network.

4. manually create routes on all LAN machines so they know to use WinGate VPN machine as the gateway to the rest of the VPN.

Regards

Adrien

Can you explain steps 3 & 4 in details....can't quite understand them...
Thanks

[adrien]

Hi

That's the hard way to do it, and in some cases doesn't help (like if a remote VPN client is on a dialup connection). We recommend the first option if you can do it.

To add routes to a windows machine, you use the "route add" command.

To add routes to a gateway device, you use the management software for that device.

Adrien